HLA DRB1*DQB1* haplotype in HTLV-I-associated familial infective dermatitis may predict development of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis
✍ Scribed by LaGrenade, Lois; Sonoda, Shunro; Miller, Windell; Pate, Ernest; Rodgers-Johnson, Pamela; Hanchard, Barrie; Cranston, Beverley; Fujiyoshi, Toshinobu; Yashiki, Shinji; Blank, Michelle; Gibbs, Clarence J.; Manns, Angela
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 24 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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✦ Synopsis
A possible causal association between infective dermatitis and HTLV-I infection was reported in 1990 and confirmed in 1992. We now report familial infective dermatitis (ID) occurring in a 26-year-old mother and her 9-year-old son. The mother was first diagnosed with ID in 1969 at the age of 2 years in the Dermatology Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies (U.H.W.I.) in Jamaica. The elder of her 2 sons was diagnosed with ID at the age of 3 years, also at U.H.W.I. Both mother and son are HTLV-I-seropositive. A second, younger son, currently age 2 years, is also HTLV-I-seropositive, but without clinical evidence of ID. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC), class 11, human leucocyte antigen (HLA) genotyping documented a shared class I1 haplotype, DRBl"DQB1" (1101-0301), in the mother and her 2 sons. This same haplotype has been described among Japanese patients with HTLV-Iassociated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP), and has been associated with a possible pathologically heightened immune response to HTLV-I infection. The presence of this haplotype in these familial ID cases with clinical signs of HAM/TSP may have contributed to their risk for development of HAM/TSP. The unaffected, HTLV-Iseropositive, younger son requires close clinical follow-up.